People are your biggest investment. How do you ensure you’re getting the right ones? It’s sounds like a cliché, but it’s true: People are your biggest, and often most important, investment. Hiring the right people can transform your business and your bottom line – and hiring the wrong person can end up costing… Read more »
Part II: Assessing the exterior physical environment In Part I of this series, we addressed the importance of putting a threat assessment team in place to ensure that workplace violence is minimized. Today we’re going to review one of the key factors in managing the risk of workplace violence: The physical environment. Of course… Read more »
Choosing a local partner can mean better results The past few years have seen a trend towards big companies who provide employment/background screening and corporate investigations on a national level, and on the surface this can make sense: If you’re a company with multiple locations across Canada, partnering with a single supplier means a… Read more »
What’s new – and what isn’t – in corporate investigations Last year around this time, we offered our perspective on current trends in corporate investigations, with a particular emphasis on Canada and North America. It proved to be one of our most popular articles ever – so we’re back with this year’s trends. As you’ll… Read more »
When employers tell job-seekers that they’ll be requiring a ‘background check’, many people assume that this is just a quick check to make sure they don’t have a criminal record. But ‘background check’ is just a sort of umbrella term for a whole lot of different types of information searches that an employer (or… Read more »
Whether or not they’re using company computers may be irrelevant. You’ve heard cybersecurity experts, corporate investigators and HR managers say it a million times: The biggest threat to corporate security are employees who haven’t been properly trained and/or don’t understand the risks. And that’s true. However, while many companies focus on the obvious types of… Read more »
The RCMP has made some changes to the way background checks are conducted We wanted you to let you know that the RCMP recently announced new rules that will affect the way background checks are conducted in Canada as of January 1, 2018, and how it will affect Profile clients. THE DETAILS As of January… Read more »
You might be surprised what background checks can tell you For many businesses, ‘background checks’ mean a quick check of potential employees’ references, just to get a second opinion and maybe confirm they’ve held the positions they say they’ve held. But background checks can be far more extensive than that. As we’ve discussed before, a single,… Read more »
A surprising number of people don’t tell the unvarnished truth on their resumes When I first started seeing the data on the number of people who lie on their resumes, about 10 years ago now, I didn’t really believe it. I mean, it’s not surprising that someone might give themselves a fancier-sounding title, or list… Read more »
. . . Price is important. So are a lot of other factors. No one likes it, but it’s part of business: Sooner or later, almost every company finds that it needs to conduct an investigation to uncover potential wrongdoing by management, employees, suppliers, vendors or other third parties. Investigations… Read more »
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